Mazza writes: "Gerrymandering might not be the most exciting topic in politics, but John Oliver pointed out during Sunday's episode of 'Last Week Tonight' that it's one of the most important."

John Oliver. (photo: HBO)

John Oliver Wants to Make You Finally Care About Gerrymandering

By Ed Mazza, Reader Supported News

10 April 17

“Every one of us should get an equal chance to make a bad decision.”

errymandering might not be the most exciting topic in politics, but John Oliver pointed out during Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight” that it’s one of the most important.

“Gerrymandering has become a very precise science,” Oliver said about the practice of redrawing district boundaries so one party has a better chance of winning. “Interestingly, it is one of the few remaining types of science in which the Republican Party currently believes.”

While the GOP has certainly benefitted most in recent years, Oliver noted that the Democrats have been pretty good at gerrymandering at times.

Oliver said neither party should be allowed to “dilute our votes” by redrawing district maps.

“Everyone, every one of us, should get an equal chance to make a bad decision which fucks things up for everybody else,” he said.

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Gerrymandering, re-districting, and the Electoral College itself are rigging devices. A direct one person - one vote tabulation resulted in a Democratic sweep this last election. If we got rid of such rigging mechanisms, our federal government would look a lot more progressive, much less corporate conservative. It would look the way America really is, with We the People striving for a more Perfect Union-- and we'd be in charge.

America is NOT a democracy. It never was and never should be. Why do liberals not understand that fact? Do they consider that fact an "alternate" fact? Gerrymandering in the past drew lines for NY, MA, CA and IL. Now Dems complain when their power is reduced and R's can draw lines? How hypocritical is that?

Yes, by all means let John Oliver, cartel media whore, keep us distracted with his gerrymandering drivel while the hacking of electronic voting machines and fake exit polling make this a moot point. http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-view-from-top-of-power-pyramid.html

Thank you John Oliver for making this situation a public issue. If we want our democracy back, this is one of the important things we have to change. Too bad no one took this issue seriously enough before the right wing succeeded in effectively stealing all three branches of our government.

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